Marlow v. United Sys. of Ark. Inc.

Summary

The court affirmed an award of attorney’s fees and costs to an individual defendant who prevailed on claims alleging breach of contract and wrongful discharge in violation of public policy. It held that the plaintiffs could not argue on appeal that the defendant was irrelevant to claims in which they had expressly named and sued him, and that a public-policy wrongful-discharge claim sounds exclusively in contract for purposes of the attorney-fee statute.